Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Add iommu=on for enabling DART on small-mem machines

From: Olof Johansson (olof_at_austin.ibm.com)
Date: 02/28/04

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    To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    
    

    On 28 Feb 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:

    > olof@austin.ibm.com writes:
    >
    > > Below patch makes it possible for people like me with a small-mem G5 to
    > > enable the DART. I see two reasons for wanting to do so:
    >
    > Could you call it iommu=force ?
    >
    > It would be the same name as on x86-64 for the same thing then and
    > a consistent name may be easier to get to driver developers.

    Ack! I was wavering between the two options and finally went with =on. :)
    Either way is fine with me.

    -Olof

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